MINING DISASTERS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10418, 22 July 1895, Page 2

MINING DISASTERS.

SIX MEN ENTOMBED.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.. . . Mblboubne, Juiy 21. v Six, men named Thompson, Dawkins, Kneebone,. and Burke , (married men with families) and Crane and Armstrong (single men) were working iv M'Evoy's mine, Bl Dorado, whoa the end of fche main drive collapsed through a rnah of water, and the mine was flooded. The men are believed to be buried beneath a large body of' sand. Strenuous efforts are being made to rescue them, but it is considered their case is hopeless.

Thirty miners were in the mine when it collapsed. A young man named Fletcher pluckily rushed jb and warned the remainder, who escaped with great difficulty. All hope of rescuing tho others alive has been abandoned. It is supposed that the drive broke through into the old workings, which were filled with water.

Sydney, July 21. The mauager of the South Broken Hill' mine attributes tho recant accident to the presence of gas in the ore, the pressure causing a collapse. The evidence adduced at the inquest- showed that the men were warned in plenty of time to escape, bnt thought they were safe, and remained chatting and smoking. Tbe verdict, returned was that tbe disaster wss accidental, and no blame was attached to any parson.